Parallel Verses
King James Version
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
New American Standard Bible
And your righteousness is for a son of man.
Holman Bible
and your righteousness another human being.
International Standard Version
Your wickedness affects only yourself; and your righteousness, only human beings.
A Conservative Version
Thy wickedness [is] a man as thou are, and thy righteousness [is] a son of man.
American Standard Version
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit a son of man.
Amplified
“Your wickedness affects only a man such as you,
And your righteousness affects only
Bible in Basic English
Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.
Darby Translation
Thy wickedness may affect a man as thou art, and thy righteousness a son of man.
Julia Smith Translation
Thy injustice to a man as thou: and thy justice to the son of man.
King James 2000
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your wickedness [affects] a person like yourself, and your righteousness [affects] humans.
Modern King James verseion
Your wickedness may hurt a man like yourself; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
of such an ungodly person as thou, and of the son of man that is righteous - as thou pretendest to be?
NET Bible
Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
New Heart English Bible
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
The Emphasized Bible
Unto a man like thyself, might thy lawlessness reach , and, unto a son of the earth-born, thy righteousness.
Webster
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
World English Bible
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
Youngs Literal Translation
For a man like thyself is thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.
Interlinear
Ts@daqah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 35:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Condemns Job
7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand? 8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man. 9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Names
Cross References
Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Genesis 18:24-33
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
Genesis 19:29
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
Joshua 7:1-5
But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.
Joshua 22:20
Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
Job 42:8
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
Psalm 106:23
Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
Psalm 106:30
Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
Ecclesiastes 9:18
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Ezekiel 22:30
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Jonah 1:12
And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Acts 27:24
Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.